Writer Azar Nafisi attends the AUDI Never Follow Gala on May 3, 2004 at the Manhattan Center, in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images)
Family secrets kept close
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The best-selling author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" gives us a new memoir and a glimpse of her prominent Iranian family; a complex mother and fascinating father, a mayor of Tehran who was jailed under the Shah.
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Azar Nafisi: author of "Things I've Been Silent About." She is a Visiting Professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature. She is author of bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books."
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